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Article evaluation

As I start the evaluation of this assignment, I have to clarify in my mind whether I am required to choose a Wikipedia article related to article evaluation, related to this whole course, or related to my topic for the course. Eventually, I settled on writing on Evaluating Articles which is what I just trained on. As I went through the training again, I found there were no references and it would be almost impossible for me to answer the questions we were asked to think about, hence, I reverted to reading and writing on an article related to globalization. I read Globalization and Its Discontents .

Everything in the article is relevant to a book review which is what the title is. I was looking for something that argues in favor and against globalization in a balanced manner but this write-up was one persons review of an opinionated book. The author of the book had set out to show that globalization works for developed countries at the expense of developing countries. There was so much emphasis on the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). So, that was a little distracting for me.

That review was objective but the book reviewed stressed a particular view point. The view point seem to be biased against globalization. However, the reviewer pointed out these bias under the "criticism" section of the paper.

I checked a few citations. Some of them worked and some didn't. The sources supported the point of view in the article. Some of the links led to a general website without leading to the actual pages that contained the referenced content. Some of the information were out of date and some are just missing due to the websites being outdated.

The article was rated as being full of personal opinions. The template on top of the article suggested that it is more like a one individuals opinion on a book written in essay format rather than as an encyclopedia. It is not a part of any project.

This review seem to follow most of what we talked about in class.